Another quickie: Parsing DateTime values according to the correct culture

This is a common puzzler for people new to .NET (who aren't in the US!), just how do you parse a DateTime to be correct for your culture? Answer, pretty easily...the DateTime.Parse has an overload which accepts an IFormatProvider, so this will let you parse a…

Really interesting new (?) site focussing on ASP.NET and Web Standards

I found some really interesting articles on the new ASPNETResources.com site, including stuff on Doctypes which was pretty good and tips on getting CSS2 Intellisense support in VS.NET - worth keeping an eye on how this site develops methinks! Also a…

Very simple one...how to do a multithreaded call in one easy step

I have a tendency to forget that people don't necessarily know everything (in counselling we called it "contextual framing" - basically aligning your mindset with that of the person you're counselling). With this in mind, here's a simple one which I forgot…

Little hit tracking module for .TEXT 0.95 blogs...

OK, terribly documented, but it works...this is just the source for a little HttpModule which tracks hits to a .TEXT blog - pretty simple but should give anyone who wants to do it a start. I'll post a more complete version at some point (mainly just want to…

Great idea, Online UK Music store supported by OXFAM

Via Alex Barnett's post, with the earning potential of these things I can think of nothing better than for some of the cash to go to charity! You can get more details on the Big Noise Music site, where I notice they have a 1p streaming thing as well as a 75p…